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Photo of the Week: Nowhere to Go

This was the scene on 34th Street in New York City Wednesday afternoon around 6pm. The shoulder lane is dedicated to buses only between 7am and 7pm on weekdays. But the eight empty police cars parked in the lane between 5th and 6th avenues would suggest otherwise.

As a result, buses had to load and unload in the one eastbound travel lane, causing gridlock and leaving cars in the crosswalk of a major pedestrian crossing.

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[…] Thanks to Chris O'Leary at On Transport for posting the best documentation we've seen so far of NYPD's utter disregard for the 34th Street bus lane. He took this picture yesterday during the middle of the evening rush, around 6 p.m., a time when there's absolutely no excuse: […]

[…] and other bus lane blockers steer clear of the next transit improvement on 34th Street? Photo: Chris O'Leary.Last September DOT and the MTA launched the 34th Street bus lane, New York City's second Select Bus […]

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Chris O'Leary is a transportation geek who has been reading and drawing maps since the age of 3. He thinks he knows far more than he does, but shares his somewhat informed opinions about mass transit, roads, and urban design here. He was born in Rhode Island and lives in New York City. He hates writing about himself in the third person.